Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison called to open an investigation following the repeated theft of food the prisoners bought from the prison canteen, depriving the prisoners of many of their necessary needs.

The allocated food for the prisoners is being confiscated, where the prisoners are prevented from their necessary needs, the PPS stated in its statement on Sunday, adding that the prisoners filed a complaint concerning this issue, but the incident was repeated more than once despite the IPS’s apology.

Alaa Abu Jazar stressed that the prisoners in Nafha prison are determined to continue their partial hunger strike on Saturday and Tuesday of each week as a protest to the agreement terms signed on May last year between the IPS and the Supreme Committee of the strike, which lasted 28 days.

Israeli soldiers Wednesday beat up and kicked many school students in the Israeli-controlled old city of Hebron causing bruises to many, according to witnesses.

They said the soldiers held the students, ranging in age between 8 and 17 years, and who were on their way to school in the morning and assaulted them without any apparent reason other than because stones were thrown at them.

They warned teachers and the school principal to prevent the students from throwing rocks.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 50 Palestinian schoolchildren in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Wednesday morning. Eyewitnesses told the PIC that IOF soldiers installed a roadblock in the middle of a street that leads to several schools in the southern areas of the Old City.

They said that the soldiers searched bags of all passing students and took away 50 of them from the elementary, intermediate and secondary stages from a number of schools including UNRWA-run ones.

The witnesses pointed out that none of the 50 students was released from the military position they were taken to.

Meanwhile, IOF soldiers blocked traffic at the entrance to Yabad village, south of Jenin, on Wednesday morning, locals said.

They said that the soldiers detained scores of vehicles, searched them, and asked for IDs of all those boarding them, creating traffic congestion in the process and delaying arrival of employees to their workplaces.

Most of the Israeli arrest campaigns against Palestinian youths were carried out by Israeli undercover units, a Palestinian Human Rights organization revealed.

Ahrar Center for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights, confirmed in a press statement on Tuesday, that most of recent Israeli arrests against Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem were carried out by undercover units disguised in civilian clothes.

The center stressed that these units are known for their barbaric and brutal ways in arresting Palestinians, pointing out that most of the detainees who were detained during the recent arrest campaign are children.

Two children identified as Deena Morad Jweiles, 14, and her brother Mohammad, 12, have been kidnapped by the Israeli Police after being attacked and harassed by an Israeli settler in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported.

The center said that an Israeli settler, age 14, living in an illegal settlement outpost in Silwan, attacked the two children as they were heading to school, and sprayed pepper-spray at them.

Their father said that Deena and Mohammad were trying to defend themselves, and that his daughter was carrying butter knife in her bag, as she uses it to prepare sandwiches for herself and for her brother.

After being attacked by the settler, she took the knife out and was waving it around in an attempt to scare the settler hoping he would run away.

He added that guards of the “City of David” settlement detained his son and daughter and called for the Police. They were then arrested, and were charged with “attempting to stab” the settler.

They were taken to an Israeli Police station in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and were interrogated for six hours (from 7:30 in the morning until 1:30 in the afternoon).

The two were released on bail (3000NIS each), and Deena was also ordered not to approach or use the Wadi Hilweh road for ten days.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that this was not the first time this settler child attacked the two brothers, as he attacked them on Friday evening while they played in one of the alleys of Wadi Hilweh.

The settler tried to spray their faces with pepper spray, but accidentally sprayed his own face, he also poked the eye of Mohammad, causing a minor injury, and tried to hit the two with a baton he carried.

The Center added that residents of Wadi Hilweh are subject to frequent attacks carried out by settlers and settlement guards, as Palestinian children have been repeatedly sprayed with gas and pepper spray, and that settlers vehicles have rammed several children in numerous hit and run incidents.

It also stated that the children have also been repeatedly subject to verbal abuse and harassment by the settlers, and added that most settler children in Silwan carry pepper spray and cameras, some also carry batons, and frequently walk around the area accompanied by armed settlement guards.

The Israeli police detained on Monday two children, Dina Joiless, aged 14, and her brother Mohamed, 12, after a Jewish settler attacked them on their way to school in Wadi Hilwa neighborhood of Silwan district. The information center of Wadi Hilwa said that a Jewish settler bullied the two kids in the morning as they were walking to their school and sprayed them with some kind of gas.

The center quoted the father as saying that Dina and Mohamed were very scared and tried to defend themselves, especially his daughter who took a food knife she usually keeps in her school bag and pointed it at the Jewish assailant to fend him off.

He added that Israeli guards from the outpost City of David near Silwan showed up and detained his children before they called the police and accused them of attempting to stab the settler.

The father noted that even the Israeli guards bullied his children and intimidated them before they handed them over to policemen who took them to Qashleh police station in the old city of Jerusalem.

Afterwards, the father said, the police interrogated his kids from 7:30 in the morning to 1:00 in the afternoon and fined each of them 3,000 shekels

The police also ordered his daughter not to get close to Wadi Hilwa road for 10 days and be ready to be cited for any day for possession of a knife.

The information center of Wadi Hilwa affirmed that the same Jewish assailant had already attacked these two children last Friday afternoon when they were playing in one of the alleys of Wadi Hilwa.

The assailant tried then to spray the kids with some sort of gas, but he mistakenly sprayed his own face. He also beat them with a stick and poked his fingers into Mohamed's eyes, the center added.

In a related context, Ahrar center for prisoner studies and human rights accused Israel of suppressing the Palestinian children under age 16 and violating their rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that the Israeli occupation forces escalated its detention and kidnapping of Palestinian school children without any guilt or on false charges.

Kafsh added that the Israeli security and military forces intimidate the detained children into signing papers containing false confessions written in Hebrew and force their parents to pay a lot of money to bail them out.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) clashed with young men in the Arub refugee camp in Al-Khalil on Sunday night.

Eyewitnesses said that the clashes erupted after IOF soldiers stormed into the camp after Maghrib prayers amidst intensive firing. They said that undercover soldiers chased young men in the camp’s alleys as the soldiers fired gas and sonic bombs at Palestinian homes. Meanwhile, IOF soldiers were deployed at the entrance to the camp and intercepted passing vehicles and checked IDs.

The legal center of Arab minority rights Adalah demanded in a joint letter with defense for children international (DCI) the Israeli prison authority to grant Palestinian children and minors access to schooling in its jails. The center pointed out that there are about 400 prisoners aged between 12 and 16 years serving very long terms in the prisons of Magiddo, Hasharon and Ofer.

2013 saw a dangerous turn in Israel's suppression of Palestinian children, where 700 arrest incidents have been documented since the start of the year against children, most of them took part in protests against the occupation.

Israel's detention of children is aimed at intimidating them into ending their participation in popular events against its policies and violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Adalah lawyer Rima Ayoub said that depriving the Palestinian children in prison of education is contrary to court verdicts issued by Israel in this regard and violates the international law that protects their right to education.

Ayoub stressed that Israel discriminately and deliberately deprives the Palestinian children of education, while it provides Israeli children, who are jailed for criminal reasons, with their educational rights in prison.

Israeli soldiers kidnapped several Palestinian children in Hebron, and the Al-Tiwana area, while several Palestinians were shot by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens of Palestinians were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation during clashes with the army.

In Hebron city, the soldiers kidnapped three children during clashes that took place in Bab Az-Zawiya area, in Hebron’s city center, the Maan News Agency reported.

Six children were kidnapped on Thursday evening and on Friday, but the Palestinian District Coordination Office (DCO) contacted its Israeli counterpart, and the army released two children but refused to release four other Palestinians, including a 10-year-oldd child.

Meanwhile, in Al-Litwana area in Hebron, the army broke into, and searched several homes and kidnapped three children before taking them to an unknown destination. The three have been identified as Hafith Al-Hreiny, 15, Malek Ghanem Al-Hreiny, 15, and Based Suleiman Al-Adra, Maan said.

Israeli military sources reported that Palestinian youths hurled two Molotov cocktails at the army in Bab Al-Zawiya area wounding one solider.

Furthermore, clashes were reported in the At-Tabaqa area, near the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron.

Palestinian medical sources reported that one Palestinian was shot by a rubber-coated metal bullet, and dozens have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation following clashes with the army in the area.

Also on Friday, a group of extremist Israeli settlers of the Ma’on illegal settlement, east of Yatta town in the Hebron district, attacked several Palestinian shepherds causing injuries.

The settlers used batons and iron chains, while some even carried knives, and attacked the shepherds as they were in a grazing area close to the settlement, local sources said.

The shepherds suffered various cuts and bruises, while one of them, identified as Mohammad Shawaheen, 24, suffered a broken leg. One of his brothers was also among the injured.

The settlers forced the Palestinian shepherds away and brought their own sheep to graze, especially in lands meant for winter produce. The lands in question are 10 Dunams, and belong to resident Hussein Shawaheen and his brothers.

Thursday evening March 14, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian teenager was seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the Ghashoury Factories area, west of the Tulkarem district, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that the army invaded the area, and opened fire at a number of residents, seriously wounding one Palestinian identified as Hamza Walid Haloub, 18.

A Red Crescent ambulance rushed to the scene and moved Haloub to Thabit Thabit Hospital, in Tulkarem. He suffered a gunshot injury to the lung.

On Thursday afternoon, a Palestinian mosque in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, was burnt after Israeli soldiers fired a number of gas bombs and concussion grenades towards it, media sources in Hebron have reported.

The Ali Bin Abi Al-Khattab mosque is located north of the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron.

Civil Defense teams rushed to the scene and managed to extinguish the fire after it consumed the carpets, local sources said.

In related news, a Palestinian man attacked a young Palestinian man, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Medical sources reported that Mohammad Bani Jaber, in his twenties, was violently beaten by a group of extremist settlers who also struck him with batons, near Aqraba village. He was moved to a local hospital in treatment.

Tuesday March 12, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth identified as Mahmoud ‘Adel At-Teety, 25, was shot and killed by an Israeli dum-dum bullet to the head, in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Two more Palestinians were shot by live rounds, and six by rubber-coated metal bullets.

At-Teety was shot in the head and died instantly; the dum-dum bullets have been internationally banned for since The Hague Convention outlawed their use in 1899, and in 1907, but the Israeli military frequently uses them against the Palestinians. Dum-dum bullets expand and explode upon or after impact causing maximum damage to body organs.

At-Teety is an active member of the nonviolent resistance movement in Hebron, and was the admin of a Facebook page that focuses on the issues and suffering of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel.

Furthermore, Nasser Qabaja, head of the Disasters Unit at the Red Crescent in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, told the Maan News Agency that resident Rami Al-Karnaz, 25, was shot in the foot and was moved to a local hospital.

Local sources reported that clashes took place in the camp after Israeli soldiers invaded it. Local youths hurled stones at the invading soldiers who fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, rounds of live ammunition and rounds of the illegal Dum-Dum bullets.

Clashes were renewed and intensified in the camp after the death of At-Teety and the army fired more rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs, and rubber-coated metal bullets.

The army claimed that soldiers invaded the camp after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a settler’s vehicle near the camp.

It is worth mentioning that At-Teety is a former political prisoner who spent three years in Israeli prisons, and is one the most active former political prisoners in solidarity activities with all detainees held by Israel, especially those holding hunger strikes.

Guard beating Palestinian shepherd (image from video published by Ynetnews)

Israeli activists caught on film an attack by an Israeli settlement security guard on a Palestinian shepherd Monday, near the Palestinian village of Susya in the southern West Bank on Monday.

The shepherd was identified as Na'al Abu Aram, but the Israeli security guard, apparently from the Israeli illegal outpost called 'Avigail' that was built on stolen Palestinian land, was not identified.

The guard beat, punched, kicked and shoved the shepherd, then ran after his flock of sheep to scare them. Two Israeli soldiers were present at the time of the beating, but they did not intervene.

Avigail was established on stolen land by former Israeli soldiers in 2001. The soldiers entered the land, which belongs to local Palestinians, and installed trailers. They moved in, heavily armed, and began to harass the local villagers and shepherds. No attempt has been made by the Israeli government to remove the trespassing Israelis from the land that they illegally seized by force.

In Monday's incident, the security guard told reporters with Ynetnews, which obtained and published the video of the incident, that he was being unfairly slandered, and that it was the shepherd who attacked him.

He claimed that the local residents were being accompanied by 'anarchist activists' who try to 'incite provocations'. The guard was apparently referring to Israeli human rights workers who arrived on the scene to try to document abuses reported to them by local Palestinian residents.

Lawyer Fadi Obeidat revealed that Nahshon forces attacked two disabled prisoners in Nazareth District Courtroom on March 6, while four other detained minors were attacked in the courtroom in Jerusalem on January 27. Obeidat stated that "the suppressive forces of Nahshon have brutally attacked the two imprisoned and disabled brothers Amir and Yassin Mohamed Assad, from village of Kafr Kana in the 1948-occupied territories."

After visiting the captives in the hospital, the lawyer asserted that they were seriously injured in all the parts of their bodies. They were held in Ramla prison hospital, and then transferred to Assaf Harofe hospital to receive the necessary treatments.

Four other prisoners, under the age of 18, told the lawyer for the Ministry of Prisoners Affairs Heba Msalha, who visited them in Hasharon Prison, that a force composed of 20 members from the Nahshon unit have brutally attacked them in the courtroom in Jerusalem, and hit them using the handcuffs and other metal objects, which caused them several injuries.

After the attack, the four prisoners had been taken to the waiting room where they had been held until 10:00 p.m, when they were returned to Hasharon Prison.

A Jewish settler ran over a Jerusalemite child in the main street of Tur suburb in occupied Jerusalem on Monday then sped away.

Eyewitnesses said that 8-year-old Nadi Juwailes was taken to Makased hospital where her injuries were described as light. The locals said that the settler is known to them but they could not catch him as he sped away immediately after running over the little girl.